“We’re just two colored boys from the ghetto and we have the whole world watching us in the greatest event of all time!” Thus did Muhammad Ali describe himself and Joe Frazier hours before they faced ...

The boxing gloves Muhammad Ali wore in the first fight of his famed trilogy with Joe Frazier, 1971's "Fight of the Century" heavyweight championship bout, are going up for auction again ...

Frank Sinatra was working ringside, moonlighting as a photographer for Life magazine. Burt Lancaster, the Oscar-winning actor, was recast in the role of a color commentator. “I looked down from the ...

As he taunted Joe Frazier, former heavyweight champion of the world, Muhammad Ali, current champ, pointed at the custom black T-shirts he and his entourage sported as they crashed the Aug. 26, 1975, ...

One of the greatest boxers of all time, Muhammad Ali was a rare athlete who transcended his sport completely, becoming one of ...

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Three years after the Fight of the Century, Ali and Frazier stepped back into the ring with everything on the line, their ...

For all Joe Frazier achieved, the former world heavyweight boxing champion, who has died of liver cancer aged 67, was destined to remain in the shadow of his nemesis, Muhammad Ali, who twice beat him ...

Do you find the federal trial of disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich confusing? Time's Dawn Reiss is here to help with a handy metaphor to explain the case, in which Blagojevich, ...

Joe Frazier, the heavyweight champion of the world, spent the morning of March 8, 1971, in a New York hotel, but it wasn't the one he had checked into after making the short drive from his home in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Frazier, the relentless slugger who became the heavyweight champion of the world and earned boxing immortality with three epic battles against Muhammad Ali, died on Monday ...

As he taunted Joe Frazier, former heavyweight champion of the world, Muhammad Ali, current champ, pointed at the custom black T-shirts he and his entourage sported as they crashed the Aug. 26, 1975, ...